Thomas A. Timmes
Thomas A. Timmes is a former US Army Colonel and psychological operations officer who served as assistant for operations at the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Influence.[1]
Background
Timmes is the son of counterinsurgency expert Major General Charles J. Timmes.[2]
Education
Timmes holds a bachelor's degree from LaSalle College and a master's degree in history from John Carroll University in Cleveland.[3]
Career
Special Warfare Describes Timmes' Army career as follows:
- During more than 28 years of active Army service he held a variety of assignments, including two tours in Germany with the 3rd and 8th Infantry Divisions and a tour in Vietnam as senior adviser to a Vietnamese infantry battalion. His PSYOP assignments include service as chief of the Asian research team, commander of the Unconventional Warfare Operational Detachment and battalion executive officer for the 1st Psychological Operations Battalion from 1979 to 1981. From 1981 to 1987, he was assigned to the Pentagon as the Department of the Army PSYOP staff officer and saw service in Grenada during Operation Urgent Fury. From 1987 to 1989 he commanded the 9th PSYOP Battalion. He served as chief of the PSYOP Division and Chief of the PSYOP and Civil Affairs Branch,
Operations Directorate of the Joint Staff from 1989 until his retirement in 1992.[4]
As of 1994, Timmes was assigned to Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict as the assistant for Psyops and Public Diplomacy Policy and Programs. In that position, he argued for an active "program of peacetime psychological operations as an integral component of the emerging defence strategy of the 1990s.[5]
Publications
Articles
- Military Psychological Operations in the 1990s, Special Warfare: The Professional Bulletin of the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, January 1994, pp.19-21.
Notes
- ↑ A NATION CHALLENGED: HEARTS AND MINDS; PENTAGON READIES EFFORTS TO SWAY SENTIMENT ABROAD, by James Dao and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 19 February 2002.
- ↑ Alfonso A. Narvaez, Charles Timmes, 83; General Specialized In Insurgency Battle, New York Times, 24 october 1990.
- ↑ Thomas A. Timmes, Military Psychological Operations in the 1990s, Special Warfare: The Professional Bulletin of the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, January 1994, p.21.
- ↑ Major Carol Pugh, Psychological Operations for the Operational Commander, US Naval War College, 14 June 1996.
- ↑ Major Carol Pugh, Psychological Operations for the Operational Commander, US Naval War College, 14 June 1996.
